Entries from February 2020 ↓

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  RT @mikarantane: The snow depth in Helsinki Kaisaniemi was still 0 cm today, which means that we have just experienced the first Jan…
• Opinion | White Supremacy Goes Green – The New York Times
• Great Barrier Reef on brink of third major coral bleaching in five years, scientists warn | Environment | The Guardian
• Twitter
  RT @JayInslee: I just received a call from @VP Mike Pence, thanking Washington state for our efforts to combat the coronavirus.…
• Twitter
  Coronavirus Could Hit American Workers Especially Hard
  “…the United States is a global an…
• Twitter
  RT @marginoferror: Seems like perhaps we need a different system here
• 2 new coronavirus cases emerge in Washington, in King and Snohomish counties | The Seattle Times
• ‘M*A*S*H’ Oral History: Untold Stories From One of TV’s Most Important Shows | Hollywood Reporter
• Twitter
  RT @john_overholt: Seen while paging from the Sci-Fi Collection: Leon Theremin creates radio music with his hands, Dec 1927.
• How Do You Live In a Body That Doesn’t Feel Like Yours? If You Have No Choice, You Just Do.
• LionessElise on Etsy
• Meehan Crist | Is it OK to have a child? · LRB 23 February 2020
• Coronavirus Map: Tracking COVID-19 cases across the Bay Area and California
• Dangerzone Lets You Open Email Attachments Safely | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @YaleE360: “The formerly common are becoming rare. In North America alone, 20 common bird species — more than half a million i…
• Psychic Numbing: Keeping Hope Alive in a World of Extinctions – Yale E360
• Twitter
  RT @JuddLegum: Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was scheduled to go on al…
• Ten pressing questions about coronavirus, answered by experts – The Boston Globe
• Mapping coronavirus, responsibly
• Modern Feminism’s Big Lie: On ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ – The Millions
• Twitter
  RT @ACLU: False reports filed by Orange County deputies call into question thousands of convictions. This evidence is deeply…
• A California County’s Sheriff’s Deputies Are Accused Of Mishandling Evidence On a Staggering Scale – The Appeal
• Twitter
  RT @jonostrower: Amazon is the number 12 buyer of corporate travel in the U.S.. The company spent $220 million in 2018 on air travel.
• Untitled (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-african-american-leaders/)
  RT @ddale8: Here are six consecutive sentences from Trump’s comments on the virus yesterday.
• Twitter
  RT @ddale8: Here are six consecutive sentences from Trump’s comments on the virus yesterday.
• NBC News on Twitter: "WATCH: Director of WHO’s health emergencies program: "This is a reality check for every government on the planet. Wake up. Get ready … You have a duty to your citizens. You have a duty to the world to be ready." Latest: https://t.
• Petition · Allow remote paper & poster presentations at scientific conferences · Change.org
  RT @JeffDean: I signed this petition to encourage scientific conferences to allow remote presentations as an option.

  via @Change

• Twitter
  RT @uhoelzle: Bragbit of the day: across all of Google’s datacenters, we’ve reached a new efficiency record (in part thanks to ML…
• Twitter
  uhh….

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• [2002.12327] A Primer in BERTology: What we know about how BERT works
  Transformer-based models are now widely used in NLP, but we still do not understand a lot about their inner workings. This paper describes what is known to date about the famous BERT model (Devlin et al. 2019), synthesizing over 40 analysis studies. We also provide an overview of the proposed modifications to the model and its training regime. We then outline the directions for further research.
• Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV)
• BabelColour 🎞 on Twitter: "I originally tweeted this last year, but it is so stunning I’m sharing it again. It is Dickensian London, photographed from Southwark Bridge 162 years ago and shows the majesty of St Paul’s Cathedral dominating London’s skyli
• Scientists accidentally discover first animal that doesn’t need oxygen to survive
• Piled Bodies, Overflowing Morgues: Inside America’s Autopsy Crisis – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @chrislhayes: So here’s what appears to be chain of events:

  The Trump administration repatriated infected Americans over the obj…

• Twitter
  RT @katecrawford: And here it is – the leaked client list of Clearview. Remember how they said it was “strictly law enforcement only”…
• Twitter
  RT @CBSNews: ODDLY SATISFYING: Team of vets pull AN ENTIRE BEACH TOWEL out of a python in Australia – with their bare hands.
• Twitter
  RT @ahmetb: I might have implemented Kubernetes-style DNS Service Discovery in “Cloud Run”, and it seems to be working. 🙈

  If y…

• Twitter
  RT @jeremyphoward: In our book we always show code equivalents for any math notation.

  So often, the Python & @PyTorch code is clearer…

• Twitter
  RT @RonaldKlain: I was the WH Ebola Response Coordinator in 2014-15. We never told @CDCgov or @NIH what they could say, or ever cen…
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html)
  RT @HelenBranswell: 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯
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  RT @HelenBranswell: 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯
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  RT @jfruh: haha remember when that doctor in wuhan got in trouble for "spreading rumors" about coronavirus and everyone was li…
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  RT @Technobiologist: My grad degree in Microbiology & Immunology wanted me to retweet this. Immunity at the population level requires bo…
• Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S. – Scientific American Blog Network
• Twitter
  RT @AdamSerwer: Epidemics are one reason you want a meritocratic, apolitical civil service staffing your government, instead of a b…
• Twitter
  RT @Sifill_LDF: Are you seeing this? Denaturalization. A nightmare. And do not think they will stop just with naturalized citizens.…
• Meet Tot – Your Tiny Text Companion! • The Breakroom
• Tot • Your tiny text companion
• Twitter
  RT @tomtomorrow: What America now gets to learn the hard way is that universal health care is not free stuff for other people, it’s…
• Twitter
  RT @McMurtrieSF: Next week’s @NewYorker cover: an instant classic
• Deepnote Sets Course to Become the Jupyter Killer – Towards Data Science
  DeepNote, a small team based out of San Fransisco, wants to take the place of Jupyter in your data science workflows. I think they just might do it.
• Twitter
  RT @chrislhayes: When someone at HHS raised alarms about all this s/he was criticized for hurting morale and then ordered to another…
• Twitter
  RT @chrislhayes: Then those workers went out into the public with no monitoring or testing regime in place.

  And now the first US-co…

• Twitter
  RT @polotek: The evil of white supremacy is happening right now. It doesn’t look like what you imagined in history. This is it.…
• Twitter
  RT @owillis: i used to think "she’s duplicitous and conniving" was just a thing people said about hillary clinton because she is…
• 2019 coronavirus: The Korean clusters
• Twitter
  RT @JaneMayerNYer: Trump touted Pence’s health record in Indiana but as Governor, Pence opposed needle exchanges as H.I.V. Cases spike…

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• Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
• Coronavirus and the economics of pandemics – Marketplace
• Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911 | Open Culture
• Snoozers Are, in Fact, Losers | The New Yorker
• Report: New Android malware can steal 2FA codes from Google Authenticator
• Twitter
  RT @JillFilipovic: It’s pretty stunning to observe the deep frustration of so many women I know watching this race. We have been Eliza…
• Ten books to read in March – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @Fahrenthold: Astounding: the test that U.S. authorities use to identify coronavirus is faulty, so very few people have actually…
• Sex in the Theater: Jeremy O. Harris and Samuel Delany in Conversation
• Twitter
  RT @SanhoTree: Rudy Giuliani secretly asked then-New York Gov. George Pataki to cancel New York City’s 2001 mayoral election so he…
• Here’s The Evolution Of What The Perfect Home Looked Like According To IKEA Catalogs
• Young Seattle residents unsatisfied with nearly everything about the city, new survey finds | The Seattle Times

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• Twitter
  RT @DannyDutch: Bagworm moth caterpillar collects and saws little sticks and constructs elaborate log cabins to live in!
• New Antarctic island spotted as mammoth glacier retreats
• Twitter
  RT @ClaraJeffery: Trump presiding over a scientific and public health crisis has been one of my worst fears thes past 3.5 years. Buck…
• Most popular products that listeners love — gee thanks, just bought it!
• Twitter
  RT @snake_flyer: This video is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. The owl glides through a field of neutrally buoyant soap…
• Home | Michael Cox (More days than sausages)
• Twitter
  RT @atrupar: Trump shut down the NSC’s entire global health security unit, eliminated the NSC and DHS’s epidemic teams, gutted t…
• Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Spread of the Outbreak – The New York Times
• How to Be Good – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @duty2warn: As Trump rises, the history of Hitler’s Germany repeats itself “One by one, Germany’s most powerful institutions no…
• As Trump rises, the history of Hitler’s Germany repeats itself | The Sacramento Bee
• ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now – The New York Times
  As the Red Queen told Alice, seizing her wrist and goading her on for a race: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
• Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
• Twitter
  RT @kathrynw5: The online version has eliminated this graphic, but clearly the author has no problem with it
• Twitter
  RT @liamstack: “The virus is beginning to spread locally in countries outside China, but no one knows if that’s the case in the Un…
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  RT @owillis: avengers, assemble.

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• What’s Really Holding Women Back?

  Carefully done study of gender differences in responding to unrealistic workloads combined with overwhelming confirmation bias on the part of management.
  https://hbr.org/2020/03/whats-really-holding-women-back

• 1811.00982v2.pdf

  ✨🖼️@GoogleAI presents #OpenImagesV4, a dataset of 9.2M images with unified annotations for image classification, object detection and visual relationship detection.

  30.1M image-level labels for 19.8k concepts, 15.4M bounding boxes for 600 object classes

  https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.00982v2.pdf https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1232174690925301761/photo/1

• Google AI Blog: Exploring Transfer Learning with T5: the Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer
  Over the past few years, transfer learning has led to a new wave of state-of-the-art results in natural language processing (NLP). Transfer learning’s effectiveness comes from pre-training a model on abundantly-available unlabeled text data with a self-supervised task, such as language modeling or filling in missing words. After that, the model can be fine-tuned on smaller labeled datasets, often resulting in (far) better performance than training on the labeled data alone. The recent success of transfer learning was ignited in 2018 by GPT, ULMFiT, ELMo, and BERT, and 2019 saw the development of a huge diversity of new methods like XLNet, RoBERTa, ALBERT, Reformer, and MT-DNN. The rate of progress in the field has made it difficult to evaluate which improvements are most meaningful and how effective they are when combined.

  In “Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer”, we present a large-scale empirical survey to determine which transfer learning techniques work best and apply these insights at scale to create a new model that we call the Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5). We also introduce a new open-source pre-training dataset, called the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus (C4). The T5 model, pre-trained on C4, achieves state-of-the-art results on many NLP benchmarks while being flexible enough to be fine-tuned to a variety of important downstream tasks. In order for our results to be extended and reproduced, we provide the code and pre-trained models, along with an easy-to-use Colab Notebook to help get started.

• Speakers
  Women in tech speakers
• [untitled]
• Twitter
  RT @mikiebarb: What a lead!
• Fate and Fury in James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong”  | The New Yorker
• 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2020 – Lighthouse3
• Twitter
  RT @mattdpearce: The coronavirus story will also become a health-insurance story in America. This guy went to China, caught the flu,…
• Twitter
  RT @nycsouthpaw: The damage the private insurance industry, particularly short term junk plans, could do by dissuading vulnerable or…
• Twitter
  RT @JessicaValenti: That cheering you hear is the sound of female journalists finally being able to drop the "alleged" before "rapist H…
• Twitter
  RT @EricMGarcia: Credit to the women who were willing to speak to @jodikantor @mega2e and @ronanfarrow. I hope their loved ones are…

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• Past Time to Tell the Public: “It Will Probably Go Pandemic, and We Should All Prepare Now” – Virology Down Under
• Twitter
  RT @rabihalameddine: Ansel Adams – Moonrise, Glacier Point, 1948, printed between 1974 and 1977, gelatin silver print (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
• Twitter
  RT @nkjemisin: This is fucked up. When a WoC speaking against bigotry is called "disruptive," it’s nearly always because bigots ar…
• “I Fail Almost Every Day”: An Interview with Samin Nosrat | The New Yorker
• Sonia Sotomayor accuses her Supreme Court colleagues of bias toward the Trump administration.
• Trump Is ‘Using the Power of the Presidency to Conceal’ Russia’s 2020 Scheme to Re-elect Him, Says Former Acting AG
  RT @ChuckWendig: "This is a screaming red siren, but in the daily barrage of crazy, can we hear it?”
• Sotomayor says the Supreme Court puts “a thumb on the scale” for Trump – Vox
  RT @MollyJongFast: Why is this not a bigger story?
• Twitter
  RT @arunadsouza: This is my favorite dad joke ever.
• Miss Kansas – Annika Wooton, Miss Kansas 2019, painted…
  RBG
• ‘Antarctica Melts,’ NASA Says, Showing Effects Of A Record Warm Spell : NPR
• Twitter
  RT @CharlesFinch: Well, here we are, in a place many countries have been before, all in their most tragic times.
• 19 Liquid Cats Whose Bodies Can — And Will — Conform To Any Shape Or Surface
• Twitter
  RT @DanRather: I suspect the existential threat of the climate crisis, especially for younger Americans, hangs over this election…
• The Great Google Revolt – The New York Times
• The Future of Work
  Google ‘worker revolt’
• Scientists seek upper hand against COVID-19 with coronavirus genome – Los Angeles Times
• The Prob with Bob – Lauren Frazier – Medium
  Last month, I picked up a copy of Robert C. Martin’s “The Clean Coder”. The Clean Coder is a handbook to help software engineers navigate the workplace. It includes advice on dealing with conflicts, avoiding burnout, time management, teamwork, and more.
  I read “Clean Code” and watched some Clean Coders videos a while back, so I was excited to see what Uncle Bob had to say about actually being a software engineer. While much of the book was very helpful, there were many sections that I found misguided at best, and problematic at worst.

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• Couple Buy Land Next to a Tiger Reserve to Let the Forest Expand
• Twitter
  RT @LailaLalami: "In Kansas, state prisons don’t allow Angie Thomas’ young adult novel, The Hate U Give, or Toni Morrison’s The Blue…
• Twitter
  RT @DynamicWebPaige: ✨👩‍💻 We are delighted to announce that @TensorFlow has been chosen as a mentoring organization for @GSOC for the 2n…
• The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world – MIT Technology Review
• Behold, The Gargantuan Stick Insect
• The Starling | Black Velvet Women’s Flat | Birdies

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• Twitter
  RT @jbouie: it will never happen but stephen miller should be forced to sit in front of a truth and reconciliation commission a…
• The Keatsian Intelligence of Lorrie Moore | Lauren Groff | The New York Review of Books | Daily
  RT @michikokakutani: The Keatsian Intelligence of Lorrie Moore.
  by Lauren Groff.
  via @nybooks
• Pen Plaza – The Goulet Pen Company
• Twitter
  RT @LucasWMann: Adverbs get a bad rap but sometimes they’re reeeeaaally necessary
• Twitter
  RT @rabihalameddine: Margaret Bourke-White, Breadline, Kentucky, 1937
• Twitter
  RT @BillKristol: Wow. Bill McRaven:
  "When good men and women can’t speak the truth,…when integrity and character no longer matter,…
• Twitter
  RT @Susan_Hennessey: Even though he has spoken out before, it is still just completely incredible to me to read something like this from…
• Rupert Read 🌍 on Twitter: "Here’s a screenshot of the most astonishing & distressing page from the private JP Morgan report that I have been able to help leak. “[It] is clear that the earth is on an unsustainable trajectory. Something will have to
• Twitter
  RT @GreenRupertRead: Here’s a screenshot of the most astonishing & distressing page from the private JP Morgan report that I have been a…
• Entitled Shame, Family Annihilators, and Toxic Masculinity | HuffPost
• JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race | Environment | The Guardian
  JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race

  "Leaked report for world’…

• Twitter
  JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race

  "Leaked report for world’…

• Twitter
  RT @everywhereist: Okay.

  Okay.

  I know we’ve become numb to a lot of this shit. But. But.

  THE PRESIDENT IS MAD THAT INTELLIGENCE OFF…

• Twitter
  RT @AlexWardVox: I asked a senior White House official if Trump really removed Maguire over the Russia briefing. Official didn’t min…
• Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots | Technology | The Guardian
• JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race | Environment | The Guardian

  Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on unsustainable trajectory

• Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI
• Protest – ASK MOLLY
• Twitter
  RT @ericuman: "Regime party" is a very helpful term.

  By @AdamSerwer

• Twitter
  RT @maddow: "Last week’s briefing did contain what appeared to be new information, including that Russia intends to interfere w…
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  RT @kylegriffin1: NBC News confirms: Trump pushed aside his acting director of national intelligence because he was angry that lawmak…
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  RT @jeremyphoward: This is huge.

  The creator of the YOLO algorithms, which (along with SSD) set much of the path of modern object det…

• Twitter
  RT @lpolgreen: This is the only defensible approach to books for an actual reader.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/books/review/sally-rooney-by-the-book-interview.html)
  RT @lpolgreen: This is the only defensible approach to books for an actual reader.

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• Introducing Cloud Inference API: uncover insights from large scale, typed time-series data | Google Cloud Blog
• How I Learned to Stop Asking Female Candidates About Sexism
• Twitter
  RT @nytimes: Russia is aiding President Trump in the 2020 election, intelligence officials told lawmakers. Trump complained Demo…
• Twitter
  RT @TensorFlow: A screenshot speaks a thousand words, but sharing your interactive TensorBoard is even more valuable.

  With the new…

• Twitter
  RT @kylegriffin1: Last week’s briefing did contain what appeared to be new information, according to NYT, including that Russia inten…
• Alphabet’s Dream of an ‘Everyday Robot’ Is Just Out of Reach | WIRED
• Twitter
  RT @meganeabbott: Love knowing that Charles Portis and Nora Ephron were an item.
• Let’s Pinpoint the Exact Moment When Leonardo DiCaprio Went From Twink to Twunk
• Twitter
  RT @MoiraDonegan: Some things I think about a lot: Who gets to define what’s funny, why is men’s intent always considered more import…
• Twitter
  RT @caddington11: obsessed with the amazon reviews of don quixote
• [untitled]
• Twitter
  ‘Explainable AI’ can give you insights into your model’s predictions— e.g. return feature attribution values that t…
• Bury Me In Elizabeth Warren’s Glares at Michael Bloomberg
• Using explainable AI on tabular data | Google Cloud Blog
• Become a Partner  |  Google Cloud
• Twitter
  RT @maddow: "If ever there were a time for the American legal profession to put down its yellow pads and stand up for the rule…
• Elizabeth Warren Bludgeons Michael Bloomberg at Democratic Debate
  RT @CharlesPPierce: Elizabeth Warren gutted Mike Bloomberg like a fish.
• Twitter
  RT @AoDespair: And this, good people, is why Warren Is my first choice. Progressive politics and a taste for the jugular in a pol…
• Twitter
  RT @jimsciutto: Bear witness & take the toll of the last two weeks:

  – Trump purged officials who contradicted his claims on Ukrain…

• Twitter
  RT @_alex_joshua: I love Wikipedia vandalism

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• William Barr and the fall of the Department of Justice.

  “If ever there were a time for the American legal profession to put down its yellow pads and stand up for the rule of law, it’s today, en masse, and without waiting for someone, more senior, somewhere, to lead the way.”

  https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/william-barr-fall-department-of-justice-donald-trump.html

• Adam Serwer: The First Days of the Trump Regime – The Atlantic
  Trump has interpreted his acquittal by the Republican controlled Senate as a writ of absolute power, and the only way to stop him is in an election he is determined to keep from being free or fair. This is how democracies are unmade. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/trump-regime/606682/ https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1230126718180110336/photo/1
• andreberg/Meslo-Font: Customized version of Apple’s Menlo font. Great monospaced font for development work. Should also work with the Windows Console (see Wiki for Windows infos).
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  RT @themollysimms: I sat at a work lunch next to a guy who said he could never vote for Warren bc she “seems like someone’s crazy aunt…
• Opinion | Chris Hayes: What ‘Law and Order’ Means to Trump – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @GreatDismal: Finest possible final scene.
• TensorBoard.dev
• Deep Learning: Our Miraculous Year 1990-1991

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